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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Exactly Marginal Deformations and Their Supergravity Duals
Anthony Ashmore1,2, Michela Petrini2, Edward Lødøen Tasker3
1Enrico Fermi Institute & Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Abstract:
We study the space of supersymmetric AdS_{5} solutions of type IIB supergravity corresponding to the conformal manifold of the dual N=1 conformal field theory. We show that the background geometry naturally encodes a generalized holomorphic structure, dual to the superpotential of the field theory, with the existence of the full solution following from a continuity argument. In particular, this work allows us to address the long-standing problem of finding the gravity dual of the generic N=1 deformations of N=4 conformal field theory: even if we are not able to give it in a fully explicit form, we provide a proof-of-existence of the supergravity solution. Using this formalism, we derive a new result for the Hilbert series of the deformed field theories.
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